Laundry machinery.



R. E. KOILE.

LAUNDRYv MACHINERY.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2, 19M.

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LAUNDRY MACHINERY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1a, was.

Application filed September 2, 1914. Serial No. 859,859.

-ful Improvements in Laundry Machinery,

of. which the following is a specification.

The invention has for an object to provide a simple and easily controlled laundry equipment which will occupy but little space and will be highly eflicient in operation.

A particular object is to provide a simple means by which a multiplicity of steps in a laundry process may be controlled by the manipulation of a single lever.

It is also an aim to give a compact and eflicient form of steam engine for operating a Washer.

Additional objects and advantages will ap ear. n the drawings forming a part of this application, Figure 1 is an elevation of the equipment in one embodiment of my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail top view of the control device. Fig. 3 is a detail section showing the control lever. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the lever connection.

There is illustrated in Fig. 1 a laundry equipment including an elongated supportingframe 10 at one end of which there is mounted a washing machine 11 of any suitable construction, adjacent which there is a clothes boiler 12 also of any familiar type.

vA tub 13 is mounted upon the platform in a suitable situation and adjacent thereto a centrifugal drier 14 is illustrated.

In a suitable location a steam generator 15 is provided, from which a supply pipe 16 leads to a control device 17 at a convenient point on the frame. 10. The control device includes a frame 18 of suitable form in which there is mounted revolubly a shaft 19 also slidable in its mounting, and having fixed centrally thereof an upwardly extending lever 20. The bearings 21 of the shaft are spaced sufficiently apart to allow lateral will be described. Mounted in the frame movement of the lever with the shaft, as

at right angles to the shaft and slightly thereabove there are guide rods 22 closely mal end of the frame 18 with a lug 27 and adjacent their abutting ends spring pressed pins 28 are mounted, slidable to project inwardly from the blocks a distance but held normally retracted by means of springs 29 engaged between the outer, sides of the blocks and the heads 30 ofthe bolts. The

lever is provided at each side with a longitudinally extending lug 31 adapted to engage between the lug 27 and theinne-r end .of the pin 28 when pressed inwardly, on

are at the inner limit of their movement;

and having inclined faces 34 outwardly thereof by which the'heads of the bolts are engaged and the bolts pressed inwardly under outward sliding movement of the blocks on the rods 22. The frame 18 is formed with an approximately H-shaped slot 35, the branches of which are alined with the rods 22 and are adapted to receive the lever loosely under oscillation at either limit of its lateral adjustment. The supply pipe from the boiler is connected adjacent the frame 18 to a distributer pipe 36 connected by respective laterals 37, 38, 39, and 40, to the Washer 11, clothes boiler 12, tub 13, and drier 14.

Each of the laterals is provided with a suitable valve 41. Immediately adjacent one end of the frame 18 connected between the supply and distributer. pipes there is a valve 42 controlled by a link 43 connected to a pendant arm 44 on the block 25, and offset slightly toward the inner side. Immediately outward of the valve 42 a branch pipe 45 is extended from the supply pipe 16 to an engine 46 to be presently described located closely adjacent the washing machine 11.

The pipe 45 is provided with a valve 47 having a lever 48 connected by a link 48' to a pendant arm 49 on the block 26, which is immediately adjacent the block 25. The valves last named are arranged so as to be closed when the respective'connected blocks are at the inner limit of their movement, and the levers are 'so disposed as to be operated by the outward movement of the blocks to open the valves. A cross connection 50 is connected in the distrihuter pipe adjacent that side of the frame 18 in which the blocks 23 and 24 are located, from which extend respectively a drain and a water sup- .56 to the pendant arms 57 and 58 on the blocks 24 and 23 respectively. These two last named valves,calso, are closed when the connected blocks are at the inner limit of their sliding movement, and outward movement of the blocks will open the respective valves.

It will be seen that by movement of the lever 20 laterally to the right and oscillation in the direction of the block 23 water will be admitted to the distributer pipe, and from this pipe it may be directed to any of 1 the parts of apparatus where it is required.

The return of the lever to the point of initial engagement will close the water supply, and by oscillation to the opposite limit of its movement, the drain is opened. The branches of the H-shaped slot are sufficiently wide to allow lateral movement of the lever to clear the projections on the blocks and allow its return to initial position and into another position for operation of another valve, if desired, and it may be rengaged with a block from which it has been released while in open position by a very simple movement whichwill be readily understood.

What is claimed:

1. In a laundry, a main pipe, steam, water, and drain pipes connected therewith, respective valves in the last named pipes having controlling levers, a motor-control including a lever, a frame having an H-shaped slot therein, two guide rods alined with respective sides of the slot, sliding members thereon, connections between respective sliding members and respective valves for opening of the valves under movement of the sliding members in a given direction, operative connections between one of the sliding members and the motor control lever, a transverse shaft intermediately of the slot, a lever thereon oscillable and laterally movable, and means to connect the lever and respective sliding members releasably under lateral movement of the lever.

2. In'combination, a motor control device, and a plurality of valve devices, a frame having an H-shaped I slot therein, guides alined therewith, sliding members on the guides, operative connections between respective sliding members the motor control and the valves, an axially reciprocable oscillable lever, and releasable connecting devices to connect the lever and sliding members iendividually and alternatively, operable under lateral movement of the lever.

3. In a device of the character indicated, a frame having parallel guides, sliding members on each, a centrally located transverse shaft, a lever carried pivotally thereby, projecting devices on the sliding members arranged to receive the lever thereagainst when oscillated closely adjacent the respective guides, said lever being laterallyreciprocable, a plurality of devices to be operated, and operative connections between said devices and respective sliding members.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROSS KOILE.

Witnesses E. E. STRAIT, H. S. MILLER. 

